Actor Aditya Pancholi (real name:
Nirmal) has been so synonymous
with brawls and run-ins
with the law that a five-star hotel
at Juhu in Mumbai banned him from entering
its precincts while another made
sure that he didn’t get a membership to
its health club.

While his constant presence in the
headlines for drunken fisticuffs and
roadside drama may have made his
family squirm, on most occasions they
could be passed off as exaggerations by
the media. After all, Sanjay Dutt and
Salman Khan too have taken refuge in
the same media hideout whenever a
brush with the law came under the
spotlight.

For instance, just before Aditya’s father
passed away last year, the actor
had hit the headlines for roughing up
the hospital staff where his ailing parent
had been admitted. But his family
had shrugged it off as something
Aditya had done under great emotional
stress because his dad was so ill!

Unlike Sanju or Sallu, Aditya Pancholi
does not even have a booming acting
career to occasionally bring him notice
for something positive.Additionally,
his personal life, dotted with highdecibel
philandering, has always kept
him in the news for wrong reasons. For
example,much after his marriage to actress
Zarina Wahab, Aditya had begun
to paint the town red
with Pooja Bedi, a romance
that had ended
with a charge of verbal
and physical
abuse against him.

Wife Zarina
Wahab was clear
about her approach to
his extra-marital misadventures.
“When
you marry a good
looking man much
younger than you,
you should be ready
for his flings and affairs,”
she often said.
Even if that was
rather unsavvy, her
clarity helped the
marriage which bore
two healthy children,
a girl named Sana
and Suraj, a boy.

Zarina may have
faced the emotional
upheavals stoically.
But daughters are
different; they may
not be inclined to accept
a parent’s wellchronicled
fling.
Years later,when
Aditya Pancholi was having his blatantly
open relationship with Kangana Ranaut,
his daughter Sana was grown up
enough to question her mom about it.
Zarina had said,“Whatever your father’s
relationship with Kangana may
be, that’s between him and me. It’s not
for you to question it.”

Zarina maintains that Aditya has
been a good provider. He has bought his
family a spacious apartment and they
have never lacked for anything. But is
that alone the definition of good parenting?
Obviously, Aditya’s waywardness
has taken its toll on Sana, his
daughter who has nursed acting ambitions.

Look at life from the young girl’s
perspective. Aditya had made Kangana
practically a part of the family. At the
first trial show of Gangster, Zarina and
Sana had watched Kangana make her
celluloid debut and had enthusiastically
congratulated her after the lights
came on. But the film not only marked
the arrival of a new actress, her Adityalink
also came into the limelight.

In true Aditya-style, the relationship
made headlines when Kangana left a
party in a rickshaw and her man
chased her down a road for a midnight
showdown in public. Kangana went to
the cops and soon Aditya went to the
press declaring that they were practically
husband and wife.

Zarina may have her own philosophy
to support her but Sana is obviously
made of more delicate stuff, especially
when her dream of becoming an actress
was aborted early. Sana Pancholi
had signed Shakalaka Boom Boom with
Bobby Deol and had even flown to
South Africa to shoot for it when she
was unceremoniously sent back home
and replaced by — you guessed it —
Kangana Ranaut!

Thereafter, little was heard of
Aditya’s young daughter until last
week,when the cops busted a rave
party and Sana Pancholi was one of the
kids who tested positive.
Do you really
blame her for her
fling with substance
abuse?

Hey, psst!

Poonam Dhillon
who has maintained
herself extraordinarily
well, is back in the
studios. She has said
‘yes’ to the prestigious
Yashraj banner
that had launched her
as a heroine three
decades ago (Trishul,
Noorie).Poonam will
make a comeback to
films as Anupam
Kher’s wife in the
Rani Mukherji-
Shahid Kapoor film
on cricket tentatively
titled Hadippa. Poonam’s
shoot as
Shahid’s mom will
begin in a couple of
months.

Saif Ali Khan has
found a title for his
Imtiaz Ali-directed
production, co-starring
Deepika Padukone. After Imtiaz’s
well-received Jab We Met, he’s come up
with another Hindi-English mix — the
name he is toying with is Love Aaj Kal.

Unbelievably, Javed Akhtar will not
be the lyricist of Karan Johar’s My
Name Is Khan.Karan’s pal Niranjan Iyer
penned two songs while the script was
being written. Javed,who does not
share the lyricist’s credit with anybody
for any film, decided not to set a precedent
and gracefully bowed out of the
project.